The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 21: 22 Short Films About Springfield

(Before I start, I got this summary from Wikipedia because it's easy to follow through. See, Wikipedia IS a reliable source sometimes)

The episode starts of with Bart and Milhouse wondering if anything interesting happens in Springfield. In fact, there is!

1. Bart and Milhouse spit and squirt condiments from a highway overpass onto cars, then go to the Kwik-E Mart.
2. There, Apu leaves his shop to attend a party at his brother Sanjay's house.
3. Bart gets gum in Lisa's hair without noticing, and Marge tries to get it out by putting a variety of foods on her head.
4. Smithers suffers an allergic reaction to a bee sting while bike riding with Mr. Burns.
5. Dr. Nick comes under criticism from the medical board for his unorthodox medical procedures, only to treat Abraham Simpson with an electric light socket, saving his career.
6. Moe gets robbed by Snake.
7. Seymour Skinner hosts lunch for Superintendent Chalmers but ends up setting the house on fire.
8. Homer accidentally traps Maggie in a newspaper vending box, and ends up uprooting the box and placing it in her bedroom.
9. Chief Wiggum, Lou, and Eddie discuss the similarities and differences between McDonald's and Krusty Burger.
10. Bumblebee Man's house is destroyed upon arriving home after a horrible day at work, causing his wife to leave him.
11. Snake runs Wiggum over and the two begin to fight. They roll into Herman's shop, who captures them at gunpoint.
    
    
12. Reverend Lovejoy urges his dog to use Ned Flanders' lawn as a toilet.
    
13. Various townspeople advise Marge and Lisa on how to remove the gum stuck in Lisa's hair.
14. Cletus offers Brandine some shoes he found on a telephone line.
15. Milhouse has to use the bathroom in Comic Book Guy's Android's Dungeon, but ends up leaving before he can use it. He goes with his father to Herman's store, where he accidentally knocks Herman out with a flail, saving his father, Snake, and Wiggum.
16. A barber cuts the gum out of Lisa's hair, leaving her with a different hairstyle.
    
    
    
17. Nelson laughs at Lisa's new haircut, at Mrs. Glick tripping and falling head-first into a trash can, and at an extremely tall man in a small VW Beetle car, who gets out and humiliates him to teach him a lesson.
18. Bart and Milhouse conclude that life is interesting in their town after all.
19. The episode ends as Professor Frink attempts to tell his story, but the credits cut him off.
    
    
    

My thoughts:

How many times haves I watched it: 4 times.

Storyline: I think the episode was great in portraying the city of Springfield itself. The ones I liked the most were when Snake and Wiggum tied up, Wiggum's conversation in Krustyburger, Lisa's hair plot, Maggie stuck in a newspaper box, and Skinner nervous in front of Chalmers (my favourite). Every story entertained me because those doings of the characters really matched to their characteristics (Apu being strict to his job, Burns being bossy, Nelson making fun of people). Only flaw that I can think of is that the Spanish spoken in Bumblebee's Man was atrocious, but other than that the episode took a very unorthodox way, it holds up to be entertaining.

Overall, it's an impressive episode with solid usage with the secondary characters. The jokes were great, too.

My grade: A/A+